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ac⋅a⋅dem⋅ic

  [ak-uh-dem-ik]
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–adjective
1. of or pertaining to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution, esp. one for higher education: academic requirements.
2. pertaining to areas of study that are not primarily vocational or applied, as the humanities or pure mathematics.
3. theoretical or hypothetical; not practical, realistic, or directly useful: an academic question; an academic discussion of a matter already decided.
4. learned or scholarly but lacking in worldliness, common sense, or practicality.
5. conforming to set rules, standards, or traditions; conventional: academic painting.
6. acquired by formal education, esp. at a college or university: academic preparation for the ministry.
7. (initial capital letter) of or pertaining to Academe or to the Platonic school of philosophy.
–noun
8. a student or teacher at a college or university.
9. a person who is academic in background, attitudes, methods, etc.: He was by temperament an academic, concerned with books and the arts.
10. (initial capital letter) a person who supports or advocates the Platonic school of philosophy.
11. academics, the scholarly activities of a school or university, as classroom studies or research projects: more emphasis on academics and less on athletics.
Origin:
1580–90; < L Acadēmicus < Gk Akadēmeikós. See academy, academe, -ic

Synonyms:
2. humanistic, liberal. 4. theoretical. 5. See formal 1 .
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ac·a·dem·ic   (āk'ə-děm'ĭk)   
adj.  
  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a school, especially one of higher learning.
    1. Relating to studies that are liberal or classical rather than technical or vocational.
    2. Relating to scholarly performance: a student's academic average.
  3. Of or belonging to a scholarly organization.
  4. Scholarly to the point of being unaware of the outside world. See Synonyms at pedantic.
  5. Based on formal education.
  6. Formalistic or conventional.
  7. Theoretical or speculative without a practical purpose or intention. See Synonyms at theoretical.
  8. Having no practical purpose or use.
n.  
  1. A member of an institution of higher learning.
  2. One who has an academic viewpoint or a scholarly background.
ac'a·dem'i·cal·ly adv.
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Academic

Ac`a*dem"ic\, Academical \Ac`a*dem"ic*al\, a. [L. academicus: cf. F. acad['e]migue. See Academy.]

1. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.

2. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. "Academic courses." --Warburton. "Academical study." --Berkeley.

Academic

Ac`a*dem"ic\, n. 1. One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist. --Hume.

2. A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.
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Spanish: académico,
German: akademisch,
Japanese: 学問の
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